Associate - Legal & Regulatory

Education & Qualifications

• Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from a recognised institution.
  
• Admission as a practising advocate or equivalent professional legal qualification is highly preferred but not a requirement.
  
• A Master's degree in Law (LL.M.), Legal and Regulatory Policy, or Commercial Law is a significant added advantage.
  

• Minimum 2–3 years of professional legal experience, with a strong focus on legal research, policy analysis, regulatory compliance, or commercial contract review.
  
• Demonstrated experience interpreting, summarising, and synthesising complex legislation and commercial contracts.
  
• Regional experience in East or sub-Saharan Africa — including how Ugandan ministries make decisions, how DFIs process applications, and how ERA frameworks are applied in practice — is a strong advantage.
  

• Continuously monitor legal, regulatory, and policy developments affecting the Platform's project development activities, advisory mandates, and operations — particularly within the electricity supply industry segments, infrastructure investment, environmental and social dimensions, and project finance.
  
• Track and analyse regulatory instruments, licensing frameworks, sector directives and guidelines, grid frameworks, regional power market developments (EAPP, WAPP, SAPP), and sector policy shifts.
  
• Conduct detailed legal and policy research to support live transactions, active project development activities, strategic positioning, and advisory assignments across the Platform.
  

• Identify all project licences, permits, approvals, environmental authorisations, regulatory filings, and statutory obligations across active projects and operations — submitting them into the centralised licence and permit tracking system so renewal triggers and compliance alerts function correctly.
  
• Prepare and submit applications, filings, and renewals on time, engaging with regulators as required to maintain full compliance continuity.
  
• Support internal project and operational teams in undertaking periodic legal and compliance health checks across project companies, advisory mandates, partnerships, operational processes, and active project sites.
  

• Conduct detailed legal reviews of incoming and outgoing agreements across the Platform — including consultancy agreements, service contracts, vendor arrangements, client engagements, government support agreements, confidentiality agreements, partnership arrangements, joint development agreements, and project-related instruments.
  
• Identify, assess, and clearly communicate legal, regulatory, and execution risks arising from contractual provisions, ambiguities, liabilities, or non-compliance exposures, while proposing practical mitigation measures aligned with the Platform's commercial objectives.
  
• Support the drafting, structuring, negotiation, and revision of agreements and legal documentation required for project development activities, advisory mandates, partnerships, and internal operations across both entities.
  

• Generate the legal and regulatory content for the Platform's central knowledge repository — including legislation summaries, regulatory instruments, licensing frameworks, policy updates and directives, research outputs, DFI compliance standards, transaction precedents, jurisdictional profiles, internal legal templates, and project reference materials.
  
• Define the structure, compliance logic, and content of internal legal tools — including compliance trackers, regulatory maps, decision trees, legal guidance notes, approval pathway frameworks, briefing memoranda, and operational playbooks — for build and deployment.
  
• Translate complex legal, regulatory, and policy concepts into practical internal guidance that enables project, operational, and advisory teams to independently manage routine compliance, permitting, stakeholder engagement, and documentation processes with greater confidence and consistency.